The

Grade 3 Weekly
November 14-18, 2016

This Weeks Focus

Food Drive

Thank you so much to everyone who has

Language Arts

already donated to our schools food drive.

Students will finish publishing their narratives this

The oil, beans, and rice will be divided between

week and then share them with the class. We

multiple very worthy charities in Madagascar.

will also finish our work on subject-verb

We have until this Friday to donate as much

agreement. Students will have a quiz on verbs

as possible. Please consider donating rice,

this week. Finally, we will focus on the reading

beans, and oil this week.

strategy, Fact and Opinion. It is very important

for students to understand the different

Half Day

between a fact and an opinion as well as form

their own.

Math

This Wednesday is a half-day. Please pick

Our new math unit is on measurement and

up your child at 12:15.

geometry. This week we will practice using

different tools to measure to the closest halfinch and centimeter. We will also review polygons
and discuss their attributes (sides, vertices,
angles) and focus on different classifications of

Homework

Tuesday: Line Plot Worksheet

Thursday: IXL CC.2 Sides and

Vertices
Every Night: Read (at least) 1 book out
loud to a parent from Kids A-Z. Then
discuss the book.

quadrilaterals.

Unity of Inquiry (UOI)

Last week we discussed the different effects
growing crops can have on the environment, both
positive and negative. This week students will be
grouped to create an invention that will help our
earth and stop the negative effect farming can
have on our environment. They will plan it out,
and then build it themselves.